Comments on: It’s pronoun or neverhttp://mindhacks.com/2011/08/17/its-pronoun-or-never/
Neuroscience and psychology news and views.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 13:25:51 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Links for 2011-08-16 « Random Ramblings of Rude Realityhttp://mindhacks.com/2011/08/17/its-pronoun-or-never/#comment-23251
Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:55:31 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=19200#comment-23251[…] It’s pronoun or never on Mind Hacks […]
]]>By: Elodie Espessethttp://mindhacks.com/2011/08/17/its-pronoun-or-never/#comment-21175
Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:10:18 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=19200#comment-21175Quite a scary article. Sounds like Mr Pennebaker found a new way to discriminate against people.
]]>By: Jon Mellonhttp://mindhacks.com/2011/08/17/its-pronoun-or-never/#comment-21118
Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:56:04 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=19200#comment-21118It does seem a bit like the second paragraph provides a good reason why we should be sceptical about the first.

If hundreds of background factors (such as age, gender and social class) known to be good predictors of health correlate with language use isn’t it more likely they account for the differences in health rather than the use of pronouns.

This is also worrying if he uses this kind of automatic analysis on college essays as you might end up just excluding people from less priveliged backgrounds.